After hearing about the Global Goals in 2015 by Hank Green, I was
determined to help them become accomplished anyway possible. I
decided that the best way to help accomplish those goals was to
have a town hall meeting. It is very important to me that people
become aware of these goals because they are imperative to the
growth and development of our world. During these meeting, I
learned a lot about the ideas that Valparaiso (Indiana) citizens
had about the goals and how they want to accomplish them. Here
are a few ides:

1. It is our responsibility, as citizens, to help accomplish the
goals. It was said during the meeting that while the government
can and should help, the citizens need to be the pilot for
change. They need to take charge and tell the government what
they want done and how they want it to be done.

2. To accomplish goals 2 and 8 (No Hunger and Good Jobs and
Economic Growth), we must not only give the homeless food to eat
and a place to sleep, but we must also give them education and
training so that they are able to get a job and make a living. To
do this, the idea is that we need business to partner with
homeless shelters to create education programs that would help
them get into the workforce.

3. Along with the previous idea, to help accomplish goal 2 (No
Hunger) restaurants in the area could have specific times where
they round up their pricing on food and then donate the extra
money to the programs that would be set up to help the homeless
in our community.

4. The last of the larger ideas was the idea that downtown
Valparaiso can go green. With talks of building a canal, the idea
is that the city could use it to use hydro-power, along with
building solar panels for solar power. Valparaiso does try very
hard to conserve energy, however, the idea is to make it 100%
green.

All in all, the Valparaiso Global Goals Meeting was extremely
successful, we came together to help pitch ideas on how to
accomplish any of the Global Goals that we could. My hope is that
not only did it help educate others on the Goals but also
inspired them to make small changes in their lives to help
accomplish them as well.

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